How President Trump Normalized NeoconservatismPost Date: 2018-01-18 03:49:22 by hondo680 CommentsIt's fact: Neoconservatives are pleased with President Trumps foreign policy. A couple of months back, Bloombergs Eli Lake let it know he was in neoconservative nirvana: " for Venezuela, [Donald Trump] came very close to calling for regime change. 'The United States has taken important steps to hold the regime accountable,' Trump said. 'We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on its path to impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.'" "For a moment," swooned Lake, "I closed my eyes and thought I was listening to a Weekly Standard editorial meeting." Onward to Venezuela! Mr. ...

Former US president George HW Bush apologizes after actress claims he 'sexually assaulted' her from his WHEELCHAIR Post Date: 2017-10-25 12:48:37 by hondo680 CommentsActress Heather Lind made allegations Tuesday claiming when she met former President George H.W. Bush, 93, he 'sexually assaulted' her from his wheelchairShe claimed the 'assault' happened during a photo-op with wife Barbara Bush standing by his side, and claims his wife saw the incident unfold The now 34-year-old actress also claimed that afterwards Bush's security detail told her she shouldn't have stood next to the former president for the photo-opLind says this happened four years ago while she was promoting a movieIn a statement to DailyMail.com the former president has apologized for the incident saying it was an 'attempt at humor' and not meant to ...

Dubya's Daddy is a Dirty Old Man... Gropes Actress Right In Front of BarbaraPost Date: 2017-10-25 11:59:38 by Willie Green13 Comments WASHINGTON (AP)  A television actress has accused former President George H.W. Bush of touching her from behind while she was posing for a photo alongside him and telling her a dirty joke. People magazine reports Heather Lind said in a now-deleted Instagram post that the incident took place while she was posing for a photo with Bush during a promotional tour for her AMC series TURN: Washingtons Spies. Lind appears alongside the 93-year-old Bush, whos seated in a wheelchair, in a photo together at a Houston screening of the series in 2014. Lind posted a photo to Instagram of the former president shaking hands with other former U.S. presidents at a concert ...

[Gitmo] Detainees Complain of Not Being Force-Fed During Hunger StrikesPost Date: 2017-10-12 13:28:00 by Tooconservative21 Comments As a young, semi-high child in a famous viral video once asked after being sedated at the dentist, Is this real life? Given the happenings of the past two years, asking that question is probably redundant but even this story is hard to believe at first. Per the New York Times, detainees at Guantanamo Bay are complaining (via their lawyers) that they are not being force-fed as rigorously while protesting with hunger strikes. David Remes, who represents another hunger striker, said his client had been on such a strike since August but had not been tube-fed despite losing significant weight. The client also told him that other protesters were no longer being force-fed. Another ...

Trump’s Horrible, Arrogant, Dumb, Neocon UN SpeechPost Date: 2017-09-21 15:17:34 by hondo6812 CommentsIt reads like a declaration of war to every country that does not accept Washingtons hegemony I listened to part of Trumps UN speech this morning. I was so embarrassed for him and for my country that I had to turn it off. I wonder if whoever wrote the deplorable speech intended to embarrass Trump and inadvertantly embarrassed America as well, or whether the speechwriter(s) is so imbued with the neoconservative arrogance and hubris of our time that the speechwriter was simply blind to the extraordinary contradictions that stood out like sore thumbs all through the speech. I am not going to describe all of them, just a couple of examples. Trump went on at great length about how ...

Trump is about to outsource a war to a civilian-murdering mercenary groupPost Date: 2017-08-08 19:31:42 by Willie Green4 CommentsDonald Trump plans to outsource the war in Afghanistan to mercenaries who have a legacy of killing civilians and utilizing torture while being paid off by the U.S. government. Donald Trump plans to outsource a huge portion of the ongoing war in Afghanistan to mercenary groups like Blackwater, the company founded by Erik Prince  brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos  and which has a reputation for killing and torturing civilians across the world in profit-generating operations. After speaking to Prince himself, USA Today reports that the Trump plan would send 5,500 mercenaries to Afghanistan, including a 90-plane private air force to support their operations in the ...

Tucker Carlson Now Taking on Unrepetentent Neocons One By OnePost Date: 2017-07-13 19:41:25 by Tooconservative3 Comments Two videos below. First, last night's donnybrook with sneering interventionist globalist Max Boot, who has been wrong about virtually everything but just gets more militantly arrogant with every fresh failure. Then, an interview from two nights ago with Ralph Peters. Both men are basically still peddling the line that virtually brought the GOP to bankruptcy in 2008 (and swept Barack Hussein Obama into the White House): that America is duty-bound to pursue a naive moralism in foreign policy, with our moralism enforced with lots of US troops, and, worse yet, lots of dead and permanently maimed US troops. And to object to that -- to say "I don't know if this is worth an American ...

Are Syria's Chemical Weapons Iraq's Missing WMD? Obama's Director of Intelligence Thought So.Post Date: 2017-04-10 14:02:06 by Tooconservative2 CommentsWho was the bigger liar on WMD? Bush or Obama? During the Bush administration, the popular protest refrain was Bush lied, people died." It's true that a major justification for the Iraq war was eliminating Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of so-called weapons of mass destruction, a catch-all phrase for biological and chemical weapons, as well as ridding Iraq of attempts to start a nuclear program. Saddam Hussein previously used chemical weapons on the Kurds, so we know he had these weapons at some point. But they were nowhere to be found when we invaded.One popular theory for what happened to them is that they were smuggled into Syria. In 2003, none other than James ...

Saddam HusseinÂ’s CIA Interrogator Finally Reveals Truth About BushÂ’s Invasion of IraqPost Date: 2017-01-07 01:47:41 by Deckard3 CommentsLast month, former CIA analyst John Nixon made headlines when he asserted that while he was interrogating Saddam Hussein after the 2003 invasion, the dictator warned him that the U.S. would fail in Iraq. Now, Nixon has revealed yet another unsettling detail: the Bush administration knew they were going to take on Iraq on day one  before the 9/11 terror attacks even occurred. In fact, they viewed Iraq as unfinished business, according to the former analyst. (deployads = window.deployads || []).push({}); We never really understood at that point what unfinished business meant, but we knew that they wanted to do something, Nixon said in an interview ...

Ban Bolton, Giuliani Post Date: 2016-11-15 21:49:01 by hondo687 CommentsInterview with Rand Paul: I Cant Support Anybody to Be Our Secretary of State Who Didnt Learn the Lesson of IraqFor the libertarian-leaning senator, just about anybody would be better than John Bolton or Rudy Giuliani. Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press/NewscomSen. Rand Paul implored President-Elect Donald Trump not to pick Rudy Giuliani or John Bolton to run the State Department and suggested he would be inclined to vote against their confirmation. In an interview with Reason, Paul described Bolton and Giuliani as representatives of "the most bellicose interventionist wing of any party" and the antithesis of the restrained foreign policy platform Trump ran on. The ...

Kasich Writes In John McCain For PresidentPost Date: 2016-11-01 19:05:55 by hondo6817 Comments Ohio Gov. John Kasich (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) John Kasich stood by his word that he wouldn't vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The Ohio governor instead wrote in Sen. John McCain on his absentee ballot Monday, news first reported by Cleveland.com. Kasich has been at odds with Trump since the summer. He didn't attend the GOP convention and said three weeks ago that he would not vote for Trump following the release of lewd comments he made in 2005. Kasich called Trump's comments disgusting and damaging to the Republican party. "This is not just a matter of what has happened within the last 24 hours. This is a matter of what's happened over the ...

Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco StatePost Date: 2016-08-27 04:14:01 by A Pole0 CommentsHelmand Province in southern Afghanistan is named for the wide river that runs through its provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, a low-slung city of shrubby roundabouts and glass-fronted market blocks. When I visited in April, there was an expectant atmosphere, like that of a whaling town waiting for the big ships to come in. In the bazaars, the shops were filled with dry goods, farming machinery and motorcycles. The teahouses, where a man could spend the night on the carpet for the price of his dinner, were packed with migrant laborers, or nishtgar, drawn from across the southern provinces, some coming from as far afield as Iran and Pakistan. The schools were empty; in war-torn districts, ...

George W. Bush: 'I'm worried that I will be the last Republican president'Post Date: 2016-07-19 15:29:29 by Willie Green14 CommentsThe 43rd president is concerned he may be the last Republican to win the White House. "I'm worried that I will be the last Republican president," George W. Bush said in April, according to Politico. He made the comment to about 1,000 people at a staff reunion in Dallas, which Politico called a "shadow convention" in its Tuesday report. Bush's fears are shared by other Republicans who say the party's presumptive GOP nominee, Donald Trump, has pushed away Latinos with his plan for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. He has also called for an immigration ban against Muslims and an end to certain international trade deals. As ...

Man fights to keep giant hogweedPost Date: 2016-07-03 08:57:20 by Willie Green4 CommentsIts not Chris Costanza the machinery of the state wants to squash like a bug.Its his plants.Neighbors have complained to the authorities about his plants. The town of Irondequoit thinks they're dangerous. The state of New York wants badly to uproot them.Costanza doesn't care. He insists he has a very good reason to protect the plants that everyone else wants dead.New York is kind of a nanny state, he said. Its my land. If I want to have a giant hogweed growing there, I can have a giant hogweed growing there."Ah. Giant hogweed.Indeed, this state-versus-individual conflict is centered on Costanzas right to grow giant hogweed, the ...

From the Ashes of the GOP, A New Chance for Liberty (Post Trump defeat: 2020 Hillary challenge)Post Date: 2016-04-27 19:47:44 by hondo6832 CommentsWith GOP Demise, The Time is Now for Lovers of Liberty to ActWith overwhelming victories in five states last night, Donald Trump seems all but guaranteed to become the Republican nominee for president. In spite of Hillary Clintons general unpopularity, Trump appears poised to also lose in a massive landslide in November.The current outlook on a Clinton v. Trump electoral map, according to University of Virginia Professor and Political Scientist Larry Sabato. Nonetheless, many in the Republican Party remain intent upon preventing Trump from winning the nomination at the Republican National Convention in July. No matter the result, it becomes less likely every day that the Republican ...

Ron Paul: I couldn’t support Donald Trump as nominee (10X worse than Obama)[Full Thread]Post Date: 2016-03-18 22:32:54 by hondo6850 CommentsFormer Texas Rep. Ron Paul, father of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks in Richmond, Va., in this Nov. 4, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul said Friday he couldnt support GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump if Mr. Trump wins the partys nomination, saying Mr. Trumps views on the scope of executive authority could surpass those of President Obama.No, I couldnt do that, Mr. Paul said on Fox Business Network when asked if he would support Mr. Trump, should the billionaire businessman win the GOP nomination. Hes [the] opposite of a libertarian. Mr. Paul, a three-time presidential candidate, said on ...

Pro-Trump PAC hires GOP veteran as strategist - Jesse BentonPost Date: 2016-03-11 12:09:04 by hondo685 Comments Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on March 7, 2016, in Madison, Miss. | AP Photo A pro-Donald Trump super PAC has tapped Jesse Benton, a veteran Republican operative with ties to Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, to serve as its chief strategist. The move is the latest indication that the super PAC, dubbed Great America PAC, is developing into a serious organization  one looking to buttress Trump in the final stretch of the Republican primary and, potentially, the general election. "There is a growing movement behind Donald Trump, bringing new voters to the GOP in an unprecedented way, Benton wrote in an email. Great America PAC will help grow and harness ...

Republican debate: 5 things to watch - Trump, Cruz, Rubio meet in TexasPost Date: 2016-02-25 19:09:50 by hondo684 Comments Story highlightsDonald Trump has won the last 3 states in a row. Will he go for the kill?Can Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz stop fighting each other long enough to hit Trump?Watch CNN's Republican debate live on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET.Houston (CNN)Everything's bigger in Texas -- and that's true of the stakes at CNN's Republican debate in Houston at 8:30 p.m. ET Thursday night, just days before Super Tuesday.Donald Trump will take center stage as the dominant front-runner, with three victories now under his belt. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are hoping to slow down the New Yorker's momentum and claim some wins of their own.Meanwhile, John Kasich is under pressure from some ...

Cruz and Beck Join Forces at Waterloo to Campaign (kiss of death)Post Date: 2016-01-20 14:43:59 by hondo6811 CommentsNicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesGlenn Beck lit into former Alaska governor Sarah Palin after her endorsement today of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. The radio host then announced that he would be joining Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) this weekend for a campaign rally in Waterloo, Iowa. Beck, who had a falling out with Palin a number of years ago that only became public last fall when he referred to her as a clown on his radio show, posted the following to his Facebook page today: Sarah Palin. Small Government, lower taxes, fewer regulations and the constitution? Not any more. Big government, bailouts, executive orders, not just abortion but partial birth abortion, nationalizing ...

Marco Rubio Praises Lindsey Graham, Attacks Rand Paul on National SecurityPost Date: 2015-12-21 21:26:55 by hondo686 CommentsBrian Snyder/ReutersSen. Marco Rubio greets diners at George's Diner in Meredith, N.H., Dec. 21, 2015. At a campaign stop in Rochester, New Hampshire, Marco Rubio passed judgment on two fellow senators for their records on national security, simultaneously praising Lindsey Graham and attacking Rand Paul. I thought [Graham] was one of the most forceful voices on any of the debate stages about rebuilding our military. So, we will miss that on the campaign, Rubio told reporters shortly after Graham announced he would be suspending his presidential campaign. Rubio was also asked whether he would be seeking Grahams endorsement. Its probably premature to ask ...

Former Rand Paul advisers re-indicted (Kesari, Benton, Tate)Post Date: 2015-11-20 17:49:02 by hondo688 Comments In this Wednesday, May 19, 2010 photo, Rand Paul, right, walks down a hallway in his campaign headquarters with advisor Jesse Benton. | AP Photo Two former advisers to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) were re-indicted by a federal grand jury in Iowa Friday, just weeks after a criminal trial that produced a muddled result. The new indictment names as defendants longtime Rand Paul advisers Jesse Benton and John Tate, as well a third man--Dimitrios Kesari, who served as deputy campaign manager on the 2012 presidential bid of Paul's father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). Brian Darling, a former communications director for Rand Paul, put a positive face on the ...

Clinton Camp to Rand Paul: No, Hillary Is Not A (Rubio) Neo-ConPost Date: 2015-11-07 12:54:34 by hondo680 Comments CHRIS MATTHEWS: So Rand Paul just called Hillary Clinton a neo-con... JENNIFER PALMIERI: Haha, Rand Paul... She has proven to be a very aan incredibly effective, empathetic and consistent leader on foreign policy that has a  you know  already had a lot of presence in  and standing in the world. She had a proven ability as Secretary of State to bring people together CHIRS MATTHEWS: Dove. Hawk. Where's Hillary? Somewhere in there? I think she's more hawkish. PALMIERI: She does not view the world as dove or a hawk. She views the world as what is the United States interest. What can we affect and improve and where can we be effective. Poster Comment: ...

Poppy Bush slams Rumsfeld and Cheney in new biographyPost Date: 2015-11-05 09:42:03 by Willie Green1 CommentsFormer American President George HW Bush has publically criticised Dick Cheney and Donald H Rumsfeld, key members of his son's administration, in a biography due out next week.Mr Cheney, Mr Bush said, built "his own empire" and Mr Rumsfeld "served the president badly," US media report. Mr Bush also called Mr Rumsfeld "an arrogant fellow" with "swagger".Mr Cheney was vice-president and Mr Rumsfeld was defence secretary under George W Bush."I don't like what he did, and I think it hurt the president having [Mr Rumsfeld's] iron-ass view of everything," Mr Bush said, according to an article in The New York Times that cites the ...

Jeb Bush apologizes to France for workweek crackPost Date: 2015-11-04 09:47:12 by Willie Green6 Comments WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeb Bush's rebooted campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination included an apology to the French on Tuesday for making a joke about their work ethic. "I made the mistake of saying that the Congress operates on a French workweek, Bush told reporters in a deadpan voice while campaigning in New Hampshire, according to Time magazine. "I really did a disservice to the French." During last week's debate among the Republican candidates, Bush had criticized one of his rivals, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, for missing votes, as well as Congress in general for working a three-day week. "I mean, literally, the Senate - what is ...

Ex-Congressman Tancredo Quits Republican Party Over Boehner Budget Deal (joins unaffiliated Independents, backs Cruz)Post Date: 2015-11-02 22:13:39 by hondo686 CommentsCalling the Boehner budget deal the "last straw," former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo cited what he described as the GOP establishment's lack of concern on spending, immigration, and national sovereignty issues as reasons why he is parting ways with the party. Screenshot of Tom Tancredo from the YAFTV YouTube channel. Former U.S. Congressman from Colorado Tom Tancredo stated in a Breitbart op-ed on Friday that he is leaving the Republican Party.After this weeks House GOP budget deal, which betrays nearly every promise made to grassroots conservatives since 2010, I have decided it is time to end my affiliation with the Republican Party, ...